Sam's POV

I took my girlfriend Emily to her waitress job at the diner and I kiss her and told her I would see her this evening. It sucks she has to work all day Saturday but we need all the money we can get and save.

She's only 17 but I got her pregnant. I thought her dad was going to kill me but it was actually my mom that went crazy and kicked me out. Her parents helped us get a little apartment. They aren't happy about it but what's done is done they say.

As far as our friends most of them ditched us, her best friend Bella and my best friend Paul are really the only that have stuck by us. Too bad they hate each other, makes hanging out as a group difficult.

Bella has been in Arizona for the last 2 weeks and she has 3 weeks left before she comes back, she usually spends the summer with her mom, so Emily asked me to drop off a package for her. I walk into the post office and see Edward Cullen.

We all hate him. Except Bella, she's dating him and no one is really sure why. Paul thinks it's the money the family has but Bella doesn't really do flashy.

"Hello Sam." He tells me smiling and I say hi back hoping that's the end of it. "Has Emily been in touch with Bella? She is very difficult to get ahold of lately." He asks me and I tell him yes I think she talks to her every night.

Edward frowns and I think maybe Bella is finally coming to her senses. I know she's in love with her other best friends, friend. We all know it. Jacob has been her best friend since she was 3 or something else insanely tiny but it was a summer thing since she used to live with her mom. The summer she moved her she met his two best friends Embry and Quil. Her and Quil don't really get along because he's never serious and she's always serious. They are both ends of the extreme. Embry on the other hand is quiet and serious and in love with Bella, has been from the first day he met her.

She liked him too but then she caught up in Edward and his family, his twin brother and sister Jasper and Rosalie. Embry is too shy to tell her anything but I've seen them together and so has Edward. He makes it difficult for her to hang out with Jacob and Embry and even Emily.

"Well if you don't mind can you please ask Emily to have her call me?" He says and I tell him sure I will even though I have no intentions of mentioning this to Emily at all.

After I mail the package I head to work at the construction company I work for.

8 very long hours later I run home to clean up and then head off to pick up Emily.

Everything changes the second I see the diner.

"What happened? My girlfriend was in there." I ask a fireman and he says gas leak lead to an explosion.

"Where is everyone that was in there?" I ask him panicking.

"The entire building blew up. There are no survivors." He tells me quickly and runs off.

Then my phone rings and it says Emily and answer it to her mom saying they need me at the hospital right away.

It's only about a 10 minute drive but I drive as fast as I can ask for her room and run there. Her parents are crying.

They explain how she was in the back taking out trash but the explosion threw her back and she hit her head, she's brain dead but the baby is far enough along that he can be delivered via C-section and they are going to take her shortly, after I tell her good bye.

2 hours later I have a newborn son and Emily is officially dead.

Paul comes into the room where I am holding my son. We never talked about names.

"How is he?" He asks and I know he's really worried about me but how are you is a stupid question at this point.

"He's fine, healthy and strong."

"Look Sam I know this might not be the best time and I am so sorry about Emily but I know you and Bella are somewhat friends because of Emily but Jacob and Embry were in the diner and so was Cullen and his brother and sister and the girlfriend too. And Charlie was in there too, and possibly Sue. I left just minutes before it happened. Anyways someone needs to tell her and since anyone who would be a good person to tell her is dead that kind of leaves you or Quil or maybe Leah. I can't tell her, she hates me."

Shit. Everyone Bella loves is dead. I don't want to be the one to tell her but her and Leah don't really get along even though their parents are engaged. Her and Quil don't get along but it's more of a maturity level thing than a true hate thing like with Paul. I don't have a clue what their issue with each other is but the feeling is mutual.

I tell him thank you and that I will figure something out. Hopefully Quil agrees to tell her or maybe we should have a cop call her, that's part of their job description isn't it?

Paul leaves because he needs to give a statement about the people he saw in the diner and I call Quil.

He tells me he'll come up here and talk to me if I don't mind, it's not something he wants to talk about on the phone.

An hour later we're discussing who has to tell Bella.

"I'll do it Sam, I have enough money to fly there, maybe she won't even want to come back home, she can just stay with her mom. This might kill her, I mean I think everyone in town lost someone but she lost everyone. Her boyfriend, her dad, her best friends and the guy she loves. I would probably kill myself. Shit, I'm not going to let her kill herself. She needs to come home, her mom is kind of spacey, and she needs to be with people who can look after her. Are you in? I can't do it alone and really she doesn't even like me that much, she more tolerated me for because of Jake and Embry but they loved her and I will take care of her." He tells me seriously.

"Of course I will do anything I can for her. She was Emily's best friend; I want her in the baby's life. Emily wanted her to be the baby's godmother but I'm not sure you can have an underage godmother. Shit, she's only 16, will her mom let her come back?"

"Probably, her mom is pretty much useless from what I always heard from her and Jake. But don't think she should live alone, maybe my mom will let her move in with us." He's thinking out loud I think.

"Or she could move in with me." I suggest and he looks at me funny and then shakes his head yes.

"Um, since we need her to come back maybe I should just call her." He says and as sucky a solution it is I have to agree.

20 minutes later he comes back and I can tell he was crying talking to her.

"What happened?" I ask him not really wanting to hear it.

"Um she screamed and cried and then her mom told me she passed out and she would fly down with her as soon as she could."

Two days later she's back and she kind of attaches herself to me and baby Carson.

Her mom stays with her at her house and Charlie's house through the funerals and the memorials but everyone can tell she's desperate to get out of here. I don't know her story but I know she left when Bella was really small and never came back. Charlie had to fly to bring her back until she was old enough to fly herself.

One nigh t Renee, Bella and I are having dinner with Quil at my apartment when Renee starts talking about how it's time to start thinking about going back home.

"This is my home mom." Bella tells her quietly.

"Oh sweetie I know it is but my whole life is in Arizona, not to mention Phil is in Arizona."

"And we all know that's who really matters." Bella screams and runs out of the house. Quil takes off after her.

"Renee, I really think Bella needs to be here with everyone who understands. She's lost everything; don't take us away from her too. She can stay with me." I tell her and she thinks for a minute and says fine if that's what Bella wants.

I'm sure Bella would take anything over being taken to Arizona.

Bella and Quil never come back so eventually Renee just leaves after I assure I will make sure Bella is taken care of tonight. I call Quil and he tells me she didn't want to see her mom so he took her to his house and she fell asleep and his mom is fine with her staying the night.

I get Carson to sleep and lie in bed and think about Emily and raising Carson alone and Bella losing everyone important to her and how Quil has made it his personal mission to take care of her.

I don't sleep. I never do anymore.

A/N As usual I'm not sure where this story is going… But I put a poll up to see if Bella should end up with Paul or Quil in the end… Please vote because if will affect the way the story goes!